Word: dramatist
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...portrait of the sort of station where the accompanist does his own announcing, where a befuddled Negro rings all the time-signals and most of the other work is done by one harried man, Wild Waves is novel and, according to oldtime radio folk, valid. Unhappily its author, Radio Dramatist William Ford Manley, has the notion that the source of rapid-fire comedy lies in the ability of each character to say the most boorish thing he can think of to every other character. As a result, Wild Waves is chiefly notable for displaying 45 of the most disagreeable people...
Though it is as a dramatist that Hauptmann is chiefly known, he has written a number of novels and short stories and is the composer of several verse-dramas and epics...
...Professor Emeritus left a higher regard and deeper affection among students than Bliss Perry. Fisherman, Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
...stands with no frills or false vanities, no hyphens, or extravagant middle names to hide the humiliation of a simple Herbert, or modest Henry concealed in the first initial. Who was this man Jones? A study of the catalogue reveals that he is either a 19th or 20th century dramatist. Obviously he is a man of the people with a stout English heart, otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where...
...accustomed is everybody to thinking of Pirandello as a dramatist that his publishers on the jacket of this book have inscribed: "This is a book of fiction." It is a twelve-story selection from a projected 24-volume skyscraper entitled Stories for the Year Round. Like the Thousand & One Nights, like mottoes on church calendars, there will be Pirandello tales for every day of the year, every mood, every occasion...